The Congress won the first election in 1952, after which the CPI-M
took over. The Congress won next only in 1967, after which again
the CPI-M took over. The third Congress victory in 1984 was
courtesy Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi, who lost the next two rounds to
the CPI-M's Susanta Chakraborty. In 1996, however, Dasmunshi
defeated Chakraborty by 34,000 votes.